TALES OF IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER WITH SIXTEEN REPRODUCTIONS FROM THE PAINTINGS OF ERSKINE NICOL
Edinburgh, England: T. N. Foulis, 1909. Hardcover. Octavo, 7.8 in. x 5.3 in., pp. 523, [3] (advertising). Illustrated with sixteen stunning full-color plates, each tipped-in on dark green cardpaper with captioned tissue-guards. Ivy green cloth boards with gilt title and branch design to front; gilt title to spine. Untrimmed fore-edge. Rubbing to extremities; sunning to spine. Bottom corners nudged. Unmarked interior. Light age-toning to pages. Good. Item #100537
Anna Maria Hall (1800 – 1881) was an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs. S. C. Hall". She was born Anna Maria Fielding in Dublin, but left Ireland for England at the age of 15. Mrs Hall's first recorded contribution to literature is an Irish sketch called "Master Ben", which appeared in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, January 1829. Other tales followed. Eventually they were collected into a volume entitled Sketches of Irish Character, 1829, and henceforth she became an author by profession.... Hall's sketches of her native land contain fine rural descriptions, and are animated by a healthy tone of moral feeling and a vein of delicate humour. Her books were never popular in Ireland, as she saw in each party much to praise and much to blame, so that she failed to please either the Orangemen or the Roman Catholics." (from Wikipedia).
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